Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote:
>
> > Can you show us all the settings on the screen that gives the
> > error? Vague memories are stirring of having seen something similar
> > in the past, possibly with a Linksys device. I have a feeling that
> > the error message was misleading, and the fault was with another
> > setting.
>
>
> It's a fairly complex set of menus-within-menus and therefore
> difficult to reproduce. I'll bring it along on Saturday: perhaps some
> kind person will point out what I'm doing wrong.
>
> I'm pretty sure some of these routers come with 192.168.1.1
> <http://192.168.1.1> as the
> default internal IP address. My current D-Link one does.
>
>
> Yes, this one does too. I changed it to something in MY sequence.
>
> .....you may need to enable DHCP for boxes on the network and
> let the router hand out IP addresses,
>
>
> I prefer to use static addresses, rather than rely on the elves in the
> basement. That way, I learn more about what is going on.
>
> The zen IP address is a different thing and I remember having to faff
> about getting the D-Link router to use the given external IP address,
> seem to remember having to set it twice in different screens or
> summat.
>
>
> I don't understand why a router, which is behind a DSL bridge (or
> 'modem', if you insist!) should need to know anything about the ISP's
> services. Perhaps someone could explain that, too!
>
> Until Saturday.....
>
> Chris.
>
>
I've got a LinkSys WAG54GS router which probably has similar menus.
I know when I logged into it first time, the form had spaces for two IP
addresses.
For BT Broadband, I had to change the encapsulation setting to "RFC2364
PPPoA" which gave me fields to enter my username and password instead.
HTH
Jim
